It's Skyview High.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe we should bus some kids to Langley and fill it up to 100% capacity. Isn't there a TON of extra capacity?

No. They are putting more kids in. One of the Great Falls associations had on their website that they were okay with the addon this year, but that they would not support more additions to the school. It was on their website for a while, but I cannot find it now.
Apparently, the people in Great Falls carry a lot of weight with FCPS if they are able to direct what happens. I guess RIO has similar power.

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Anonymous wrote:The slide deck from FCPS's meeting last night shows that FCPS projects enrollment declines at four of the five high schools within the scope of the upcoming boundary study (Centreville, Chantilly, Oakton, and Westfield) over the next five years. FCPS also continues to ignore the fact that significant excess capacity exists at Herndon and that its capital plans call for a major expansion of Centreville to 3000 seats, which will leave CVHS with hundreds of surplus seats in the future. If FCPS expands CVHS as planned, and moves CVHS kids into Westfield to backfill Westfield, CVHS stands to have even more surplus capacity without yet other boundary changes that, in turn, could leave other schools with hundreds of vacant seats.

There was some question about this last night, but it was hard to follow on Zoom because there were people in the room talking that were too far away from a microphone. But it seemed like they were admitting that they don’t really have good projections because enrollment declines may be canceled out to some extent by new housing construction projects.

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What's Langley's building capacity and how many students attend now? Didn't they just get a nice renovation?

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Anonymous wrote:What's Langley's building capacity and how many students attend now? Didn't they just get a nice renovation?

https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fcps.fts/viz/SY2025-26CapacityDashboard/ReadMe

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Wow! They can fit 2323 kids and only have 2185 attending? That's wild. We need to add 200 more kids, stat. Where can we find 200 low income kids to fill those empty seats? It doesn't make sense for a high school to be so wildly off demographically from every other county HS.

As a taxpayer, I'm appalled at wasting all that beautifully renovated space.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! They can fit 2323 kids and only have 2185 attending? That's wild. We need to add 200 more kids, stat. Where can we find 200 low income kids to fill those empty seats? It doesn't make sense for a high school to be so wildly off demographically from every other county HS.

As a taxpayer, I'm appalled at wasting all that beautifully renovated space.

Hilarious because FOR SURE that was a Great Falls mom complaining that Westfield, a no-frills kind of grungy megaschool at 99% capacity, had wasteful unused space. Its only GF people worried about getting sent to HHS who complain about the Skyview purchase.

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The counties HS space would’ve best served with Westfield, Chantilly, Oakton, and South Lakes at 2450 students. Skyview and Centreville around 1950 and Herndon around 2300.
Ideally, that is what FCPS wants. It balances populations and allows for equal programming in each school. To try and do this the boundaries will have to be reassigned. There will be neighborhoods that fight it like crazy and some may win out, but there will be major changes. In 15 years, no one will care/remember about where they were assigned.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! They can fit 2323 kids and only have 2185 attending? That's wild. We need to add 200 more kids, stat. Where can we find 200 low income kids to fill those empty seats? It doesn't make sense for a high school to be so wildly off demographically from every other county HS.

As a taxpayer, I'm appalled at wasting all that beautifully renovated space.

Hilarious because FOR SURE that was a Great Falls mom complaining that Westfield, a no-frills kind of grungy megaschool at 99% capacity, had wasteful unused space. Its only GF people worried about getting sent to HHS who complain about the Skyview purchase.

I think you're off-base. No one said Westfield was wasting space, simply that it's not at full capacity going by FCPS's own numbers.

The Skyview purchase is a done deal. Whether anyone at Langley gets moved to Herndon now depends on growth in Tysons (as 200 kids in a growing area of Tysons just got moved to Langley), not on how the Skyview boundaries are drawn.

But you shouldn't let your enthusiasm for the Skyview purchase fool you into thinking FCPS will do a great job coming up with boundaries for Skyview, adjusting other school boundaries to backfill Westfield, operating Skyview in the future, or making prudent decisions when it comes to the CVHS renovation/expansion. They made a hash of the county-wide boundary review and the slides slapped together last night were anything but impressive.

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At the session last night they mentioned that transportation would be on a hub system - so students get on a bus to their base HS, and another bus takes them from there to Skyview. I hope this isn't the case for students who live fairly close to Skyview and therefore far from South Lakes/Westfield/Oakton.

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Anonymous wrote:At the session last night they mentioned that transportation would be on a hub system - so students get on a bus to their base HS, and another bus takes them from there to Skyview. I hope this isn't the case for students who live fairly close to Skyview and therefore far from South Lakes/Westfield/Oakton.

If they live fairly close to Skyview can't they just walk?

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Anonymous wrote:At the session last night they mentioned that transportation would be on a hub system - so students get on a bus to their base HS, and another bus takes them from there to Skyview. I hope this isn't the case for students who live fairly close to Skyview and therefore far from South Lakes/Westfield/Oakton.

The Fox Mill families are planning on car pooling. The hub system should be leaving from the ESs, not the HS. the system that they mentioned is pretty useless given that it is longer to drive to SLHS then it is to Skyview from our homes. I would imagine that Floris is the same way.

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Anonymous wrote:At the session last night they mentioned that transportation would be on a hub system - so students get on a bus to their base HS, and another bus takes them from there to Skyview. I hope this isn't the case for students who live fairly close to Skyview and therefore far from South Lakes/Westfield/Oakton.

Way to discourage Crossfield kids from attending. Oakton is 45 minutes away. they would never get to school on time unless they change the Skyview start times.

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Anonymous wrote:At the session last night they mentioned that transportation would be on a hub system - so students get on a bus to their base HS, and another bus takes them from there to Skyview. I hope this isn't the case for students who live fairly close to Skyview and therefore far from South Lakes/Westfield/Oakton.

If they live fairly close to Skyview can't they just walk?

Carson Middle School (which is right next door) has zero walkers. Unlike Chantilly or South Lakes Skyview is not in a residential area. It's more like Westfield. There are lots of students for whom Skyview is closer than any other high school but still not walkable.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:At the session last night they mentioned that transportation would be on a hub system - so students get on a bus to their base HS, and another bus takes them from there to Skyview. I hope this isn't the case for students who live fairly close to Skyview and therefore far from South Lakes/Westfield/Oakton.

If they live fairly close to Skyview can't they just walk?

Carson Middle School (which is right next door) has zero walkers. Unlike Chantilly or South Lakes Skyview is not in a residential area. It's more like Westfield. There are lots of students for whom Skyview is closer than any other high school but still not walkable.

The only reason it is not walkable is because of traffic/main roads. It is very, very close to all the original options put on the table. Maybe, not walkable, but certainly very, very close. All of the options presented earlier were quite compact. as high school boundaries go.

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Anonymous wrote:At the session last night they mentioned that transportation would be on a hub system - so students get on a bus to their base HS, and another bus takes them from there to Skyview. I hope this isn't the case for students who live fairly close to Skyview and therefore far from South Lakes/Westfield/Oakton.

If they live fairly close to Skyview can't they just walk?

Carson Middle School (which is right next door) has zero walkers. Unlike Chantilly or South Lakes Skyview is not in a residential area. It's more like Westfield. There are lots of students for whom Skyview is closer than any other high school but still not walkable.

The only reason it is not walkable is because of traffic/main roads. It is very, very close to all the original options put on the table. Maybe, not walkable, but certainly very, very close. All of the options presented earlier were quite compact. as high school boundaries go.

It can only be so compact when you have a giant airport just west of the school. A couple neighborhoods are pretty close as the crow flies but there's no good way to cross Centreville Road or Horsepen Run. Maybe the most walkable neighborhood is Discovery Square but that might not even be within the Skyview boundary.